Science

“Research always involves setbacks. If you want to make progress, you have to experiment.”

“I have no hesitation in saying that scientific management has hitherto consisted largely in the application of scientific methods to industry in the absence of psychological principles.”

“Now that the struggle is over, I believe that we may look to this instability as the source of energy from which we may expect great accomplishments in art and science.”

“The one thing the science metaphor doesn't include and can't include is luck. Comedy is inexplicable.”

“In the history of the individual as of the race, thought, even the abstract thought of science, grows out of the free play of imagination.”

“Whenever branches of intellectual activity are at all dissimilar, then their correlations with one another appear wholly due to their being all variously saturated with some common fundamental Function.”

“Persevere – Never give up! Today’s world enjoys electricity because of those who did not give up!”

““there is no such thing as general intelligence””

“Wherever we see marks of contrivance, we are led for its cause to an intelligent author.”

“Trust your own creativity. The truth lies in your experiments.”

“我是来向环境科学工作者学习的，是来扫科盲来了！”

“The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.”

“Aboriginal people were sufficiently advanced in the sciences to control their own affairs.”

“I had a hunch that something interesting could be there.”

“If you don’t focus on fundamental research, no translation is possible.”

“And the part of philosophy known as mathematics is the easiest of its parts to grasp both as to conception and as to assent.”

“On a reconnu l'immense avantage de l'ordre monstrueux pour la connaissance approfondie de l'ordre habituel.”

“Let us maintain some cosmic modesty and study the world sincerely, just like kids.”